Prevent landslides? Did the project Landslide, software that … – The Daily

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Finally comes the ‘ alerts-disasters . Already. Each time this happens a cataclysm, how many of us will post the same question, namely, how it is possible with all the advanced technology we have today, not being able to predict and prevent disasters? We know, we know that the answer is not there. Or at least not clear-cut. But if you happen to read anything that helps give the explanations and answers to questions like these, which by the way, again, every time something happens that comes out of the norm and above all to understand and deepen theme prevention of the territory , better not have it escape and share it with all.

It helps us in this the research . And as reported by the website of the Ministry of Education, University and Research, many organizations that have sat around a table to create a shared model, and automated software for the prediction of daily danger of landslides in the European territories and to which the European Commission has responded with funding of about 575,000 euros .

Promoter and leader is our universities Camerino . E ‘in its laboratories, in fact, that it is developing Landslide – Risk assessment model for disaster prevention and mitigation.

But what will it take? And above all, we can save the situation? Mah! Let’s face it: unfortunately the collapse is now served. Anywhere. There are more territories at risk and other not. Landslides are a danger widespread, everywhere. Not only for the inhabitants of the mountains and hills, but also for those who live in the plains. Infrastructure, including. And what about the abnormal and ubiquitous showers, defined today by the most … “water bombs” that destroy what we encounter? According to the researchers is the Climate Change the cause of the weather phenomena more and more intense and long-lasting to unleash then the landslides.

is a Landslide ambitious project that will try to combine the use of models that study the composition and dynamics of ‘ Soil moisture with those who calculate their stability in terms of the danger of landslides. The result will be the development of a model that can predict the daily danger of landslides on the basis of weather forecasts and convey timely information to the departments of civil protection through automated software , so as to enable the the due and necessary preventive measures even before the landslide to occur. Were not these the answers you wanted? I think so. Although we are still at the experimental stage. The first step is the selection of the areas. The second is the involvement of the population of those areas. When everything will be fully operational and will work as expected, the model can be transferred to all the territories at risk . Further scientific thereafter may later expand the functionality of the prototype to the forecast of other natural hazards. We’ll see.

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